ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,952, issued on May 26, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).
"Work vehicle with electric transaxle and transfer shaft" was invented by Caleb C. Lenon (Chetopa, Kan.) and Randall L. Long (Coffeyville, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work vehicle has a two transaxles with wheel end units rotatable about wheel axes via transaxle gear sets to rotate ground-engaging wheels or tracks. One of the transaxles includes an electric machine having a shaft rotating about a machine axis, a transmission rotated by the electric machine shaft and configured to effect multiple gear ratios at a range gear, and a drive gear rotatable abou...